Imposter Syndrome

Second-guessing

Imposter syndrome is a feeling that many people experience at some point in their lives and can be described as having these three main elements to it:

1.     The belief that other people have an inflated view of your own abilities or skills, a far more inflated view that you have of yourself.
2.     You have this intense fear that you’ll be found out and exposed as a fake.
3.     You consistently attribute your success that you do recognise, to other factors outside of your own abilities and talent.

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You are good enough

Imposter syndrome can feel like dissonance or disconnect between what you see as yourself and your public view. I think a little bit of self-doubt is very good for self-development and the three elements of imposter syndrome are:
a) You believe other people have an inflated view of your abilities and skills.
b) You have an intense fear that you’ll be found out and exposed as a fake.
c) You constantly attribute your success to other factors outside your own abilities and talent.

 

Social media has a huge role to play in imposter syndrome as you can see everybody else’s successful lives and feel that you are not good enough. Here’s an exercise: Write down all the things that you are successful at and then look at all the reasons why you may have achieved that success. This is because you can mistakenly attribute all of it to luck, but when you put it down on paper, you’ll realise how ridiculous that is. Learn to accept that you will make mistakes and you don’t have to be brilliant all the time. Contact me via e-mail for 1:1 coaching sessions.